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Development of the Multicultural Competency Inventory-Client Version

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dc.contributor.authorCole, Elise Marieen
dc.contributor.committeechairPiercy, Fred P.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDolbin-MacNab, Megan L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberKeeling, Margaret L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWolfe, Edward W.en
dc.contributor.departmentHuman Developmenten
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:12:55Zen
dc.date.adate2008-07-14en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:12:55Zen
dc.date.issued2008-05-29en
dc.date.rdate2008-07-14en
dc.date.sdate2008-06-10en
dc.description.abstractFamily therapists face a dramatic increase in the cultural diversity of their clients. Multicultural competence will help family therapists meet the needs of their increasingly diverse clientele (Kocarek, Talbot, Batka, & Anderson, 2001). The measurement of multicultural competence is necessary in order to evaluate the outcomes of multicultural competence programs and the services that minority persons receive. This study reports the development of an instrument to assess clients' perceptions of their therapists' multicultural competence that can be used in individual and family therapy. This instrument was developed through three phases: item generation and theme development, client feedback and evaluation of interrater reliability, and pilot and validity testing. Winsteps (Linacre, 2001) software was used to scale the measurement data to the Rasch Rating Scale Model, and evaluate the dimensionality, rating scale use, item fit, person fit, reliability and precision, as well as to create norms for interpreting the measures. Preliminary support for the MTCI-CV suggests a fairly reliable and valid measure at this stage. Additionally, logistic ordinal regressions were conducted to determine whether MTCI-CV measures are associated with client satisfaction level and goal attainment level. We found that positive client perceptions of therapist cultural competence (on the MTCI-CV) significantly contribute to the probability of clients expressing satisfaction and goal attainment in therapy.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-06102008-152119en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06102008-152119/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/28011en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartDevelopmentoftheMulticulturalTherapyCompetencyInventoryClientVersion.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMulticultural Therapy Competenceen
dc.subjectInstrument Developmenten
dc.titleDevelopment of the Multicultural Competency Inventory-Client Versionen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineHuman Developmenten
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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